From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Description of problem: The gnome-settings-daemon overwrites settings made in the local .Xmodmap file (and even displays a dialog box saying so): "You have a keyboard remapping file (.Xmodmap) in your home directory whose contents will now be ignored. You can use the keyboard preferences to restore them." Point is, the keyboard preferences dialog does not offer the functionality I need (and running xmodmap .Xmodmap in an xterm works just fine). So, I'd like my .Xmodmap back. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): control-center-2.6.0.3-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in to gnome 2. 3. Actual Results: .Xmodmap being ignored Expected Results: .Xmodmap used Additional info:
I found a workaround for this just a few minutes ago. 1) Go to Preferences->Sessions 2) Choose the "Startup Programs" tab 3) Add the command "xmodmap /home/<username>/.Xmodmap"
Agreed. I use Xmodmap to rewrite my mouse buttons so I can actually use the scroll wheel on my mouse. I can't even get my global /etc/X11/Xmodmap file to run, let alone the local one that produces the gnome error. Will install the workaround, but that shouldn't be the way things work.
The g-s-d from control-center 2.9.91-1 asks me to to import my .Xmodmap at startup time (and actually does so). Makes me happy.
Seems to be fixed in current rawhide, closing.